by A.Scott and the sponsoring of the May 26th rally against unemployment by 40 MPs are part of this process at work. acuions are still 'contained' by centrist forces confused and limited expression.
process that will grow over the coming period as ever-wider layers begin to demand that their party built and vote for - implement policies in their interests.
Socialist Policies Understanding the continued allegiance of the Labour movement to the Labour Party key to thrust socialists should be fighting for to structure the wide-scale opposition building up. It is only by correctly gauging the continued illusions still retain in their party that it will be gle policies that can challenge those the right-wing.
Those groups that make | Kick out the government! their main thrust commit, this sense, a major error. of workers, Labour government is to replace it with the only viable alternative today: a Tory or, possibly, a position largued by groups such as the WRP) alienates socialists from the broad mass of labour suoporters -present government is preferable to one of the class enemies - and plays into the hands of the TUC leaders who unceasingly inal opposition to ine Contract can only lead to a return of the Socialists do not call for kicking out! the present government insofar as that government is preferable to one of Tories or a coalition government. they do call for is that the labour movement should insist that this government implement policies in the interests of working people who put it there. calling on the present government to implement pollcies in ine interest of mass base - and not those pro-Tory ones which aenate ts possibility of a Tory come-back - that socialists can gain a hearing in the ranks of the labour movement.
Demanding the interests of their members will make it possible to draw ever - wider into struggle. struggle - taking place both in the streets and factories and reflected inside the Labour Party itself - that more and more people will begin to of the leadership of the Callaghans (and Benns) and the need for a clear alternative based on socialist policies. Mass Action Building such an unis sense, pious resolutions in ward meetings (as in the case of the Militant group) often unrelated to the real struggles taking place Calling on the Labour leaders to outside. molement cicar porcies in une interests of working people has to have its roots in the independent action of wide layers involved in struggle around demands soc¡alists consciously fight for in the mass movernient.
Such struggles should include those stemming from the fight by women for liberation (as that recently pioneered by the National Abortion Campaign), by Black people against racism and anti-imperialist Struggles sucr launched by TOM to withdraw the troops from Ireland. of course, cratic rights and living standards of the labour movement which are being increasingly threatened.
• A sliding scale of wages i should be raised to fight inflation, works programme! coupled with a Sliding Scale of hours' to meet growing unemploy ment. Closures and redundancies should be met with calls for ' Nationalisation unWorkers' Control' (particularly by workers occupying the plants). upon the met by 'Hands off the Unions' and attacks on the freedom of collective bargaining by 'No Wage Freeze'.
It is by participating in and building mass actions around clear anti-capitalist demands, and directing these towards the Labour Party, that increasing layers will confronted on the Of course, sucH which deliberately give them a They the first steps in a Line party iney LITe Main It is wide layers in For the mass to call for kicking out the coalition government. Such which for whom the point out Social the What It is by its base and create the the Labour leaders act in layers It is in the course of this see the inadequacy opposition is not, to contine onselt to passing their those that They should also include, those in defence of the demoLa ' Bold Public Attacks unions' independence should be party means, Dans basis struggle gles towards the Labour Party, allows them to gain a 'focal point', not mean a subordination to 'parfiamentary procedure!. On the contrary, encouraging at all times independent action and demanding that the Labour leaders implement demands stemming action, that ever-wider layers will see through the reformists whose allegiance more to a system property than to the interests of the workers' movement.